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...Both men are spending and stumping in crucial states they expected to be able to ignore by now. Gore is still playing defense in California, Bush in Florida. Gore has Nader gnawing on his left flank in the Northwest and Midwest battlegrounds; Bush is struggling with a gender gap and a slight undecideds problem. Each is trying to lure a constituency to the polls - Gore the poor, Bush the young - that has never bothered to show up before...
...violence, it doesn't fly easily as a geopolitical option. The point of making peace with the Palestinians was to be able to withdraw from the West Bank on the basis of agreements preventing the territory becoming a base for hostility against the Jewish state along its most vulnerable flank. And unilaterally deciding which parts of the occupied territories will be ceded to the Palestinians and then simply closing the door is an invitation in the long run to make war rather than peace. Whatever its emotional appeal, the plan's strategic logic appears to be the opposite of that...
...Giant-sized GameBoy props flank the proscenium. Their screens work like big TVs, showing montages of the cartoon show to accompany songs, or sometimes displaying a close-up of one of the actors. The story opens as Ash Ketchum (Dominic Nolfi), the leading human of the Pokemon universe, and his pals Misty (Heidi Weyhmueller) and Brock (Dennis Kenney) set off on a trip to win the Diamond Badge, the rarest of all prizes given to Pokemon trainers...
...yachts chase rust-stained dinghies between the cream-and-green ferries on the harbor; ships like concrete office blocks glide under the Harbour Bridge to the container wharves, past tourists beaming over the gunwales of replica 18th century sailing vessels. The twin architectural highlights of Bridge and Opera House flank a modern CBD that seems to rebuild itself every few years, while an ocean of agreeable, if bland, suburbs unrolls along the highways that linked the rest of Australia to the nation's gateway port. All around, the beauty of the bush enfolds the city in its embrace...
...makes them, by undermining his credibility with voters. Every time Gore blasts Bush's policies, Bush wants to be able to say, "There he goes again," and have voters nod in agreement. But even as the campaign plays the character card, Bolten must protect his candidate's weak flank. Which is why the prescription-drugs speech is so important. Gore has experience on the issue going all the way back to his House days, and Bush is far less comfortable with it than he is with his signature issue of education. If the policy isn't credible, Gore's attacks...